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Coming to MWC 2024, I already had an idea of the flagship smartphones that would be unveiled at the show. There's the Xiaomi 14 Ultra, which Xiaomi unveiled in China a few days before MWC officially began, and the Honor Magic 6 Pro, which Honor kept teasing in the weeks leading up to the trade show. What I didn't expect was an impressive new flagship phone from a little-known Chinese electronics company called Tecno. And what I certainly didn't expect was a Tecno flagship that would immediately challenge the Xiaomi 14…

Eye tracking is big news in 2024. It’s fundamental to the way Apple’s Vision Pro works, enabling a range of different experiences using the headset.  Chinese tech company Honor has jumped on the trend, adding eye tracking to the Magic 6 Pro, its new flagship smartphone. It relies on a 3D Time of Flight (ToF) sensor next to the usual selfie camera, with both arranged in an iPhone-esque layout that mimics the Dynamic Island.  Eye tracking isn’t available on the Magic 6 Pro at launch, but it’s coming very soon.…

On the vast grasslands of Alberta, a group of sharp-tailed grouse gather for the most important event of the year: a song and dance competition.While most male birds compete against each other to win a mate, the grouse take a different approach. They perform a synchronized dance routine as a team, and the more males, the more impressive their performance.These sharp-tailed grouse put on a remarkable show. With their heads down and wings outstretched, they stomp and rattle their tail feathers. Flashes of yellow from the…

The two rappers are in sync though generations and regions apart Top Dawg Entertainment signee Ray Vaughn is joined by relative rap veteran Pusha T on his new single “Problems.” The nearly four minutes of straight lyricism connects not only generation but regions, with Ray Vaughn from Long Beach, California and Pusha T famously raised in Virginia Beach. “Let em label me a backpack rapper/Turn to a school shooter/All they top five get hit/Unless they cool tutors,” Ray Vaughn raps early on, leaning…

It takes some guts for any sci-fi film – especially a no-budget one – to pick that title, and to include some eerie wisps of Ligeti-like sounds to get the cosmic hairs rising on the back of your neck. When Monolith isn’t referencing 2001: A Space Odyssey, it also bears some resemblance to Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival, with its alien artefacts turning out to be filled with indecipherable glyphs when scanned. But Matt Vesely’s impressive debut ably stakes out its own territory, not least in the vast distances covered by a…

Death Stranding, the post-apocalyptic open-world walking simulator that Hideo Kojima decided to make his first major project after walking away from Konami and the Metal Gear series he created, is seemingly about… a lot of things. But the man himself would probably tell you that it is ultimately a game about connection. So you could make an argument that the iPhone — very much our primary go-to device for connection — is Death Stranding’s natural home. Death Stranding Director’s Cut is the third modern AAA console game…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI teases an amazing new generative video model called Sora OpenAI has built a striking new generative video model called Sora that can take a short text description and turn it into a detailed, high-definition film clip up to a minute long. It’s seriously impressive-looking. Based on four sample videos that OpenAI shared with MIT Technology…

These haven’t made it stateside yet, which feels like a crime. The incredible work at Disneyland Paris with drone light shows, like the Disney Electrical Sky Parade, are just on another level. Using over 500 drones, they create iconic imagery in the skies over Sleeping Beauty Castle with familiar characters, places, and even a flying pirate ship to Neverland. These haven’t made it stateside yet, which feels like a crime. The incredible work at Disneyland Paris with drone light shows, like the Disney Electrical Sky…

Last updated: February 8th, 2024 at 16:10 UTC+01:00 It's been a couple of weeks since the Galaxy S24+ reached my doorstep, and I've been using it ever since. Our in-depth review will go live soon. But before that happens, I felt like sharing something about my experience with the Galaxy S24+, particularly regarding battery life, which has been a great surprise. In case you're wondering, my Galaxy S24+ is powered by Samsung's new Exynos 2400 chip rather than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Plus, I've been using the new…

Apple has released a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing. Spotted by VentureBeat, this open-source AI model MGIE can edit images based on natural language instructions.According to a paper published by Apple researchers, instruction-based image editing improves the controllability and flexibility of image manipulation via natural commands without elaborate descriptions or regional masks. The study shows “promising capabilities in cross-modal understanding and visual-aware response…